‘On to the next’: Mizzou’s Brady Cook keeps finding chances for redemption

Mizzou quarterback Brady Cook talks to the media after the win over Vanderbilt on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. Video by Mizzou Network, used with permission of Mizzou Athletics; edited by Beth O'MalleyCOLUMBIA, Mo. — Brady Cook left his quarterbacking coronation battered, bloody and defeated.

There was gauze stuffed into both of his nostrils and spattered streaks of maroon around the red number 12 on his white Chaminade jersey. It was the cost of competition that day. Cook, a senior quarterback at Chaminade who already was committed to playing at Missouri, had carried a depleted Red Devils offense through a duel with eventual state champion De Smet.

Cook accounted for 469 total yards in that…